Thursday, December 9, 2010

Energy StarEnergy Star is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy that promotes energy efficient products and practices to identify and promote energy efficient products to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 1996 the EPA partnered with the US Dept. of Energy for particular product categories. Energy Star Ratings are available on lighting products, appliances, equipment, electronics, HVAC equipment, homes, buildings and low standby energy use.

The core of the CRRC is its Product Rating Program through which roofing product manufacturers can label their products with solar reflectance and thermal emittance values, measured by CRRC Accredited Independent Testing Laboratories.

Water Sense LabelModeled after Energy Star, the EPA’s WaterSense program seeks to educate consumers about water efficiency through an easily identifiable label. Products bearing the label are generally 20% more water-efficient than similar products in the marketplace and must be independently tested before qualifying for the label.WaterSenserequires all products bearing the WaterSense label to be independently certified. Certification provides consumers with confidence in both the efficiency and performance of WaterSense labeled products.

NOTE: this is not a certification but an EPA label that verifies high efficient plumbing products.

Water Sense is a government organizationwww.epa.gov/watersenseGreen-eGreen-e is the nation's leading independent consumer protection program for the sale of renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions in the retail market. Green-e offers certification and verification of renewable energy and greenhouse gas mitigation products. It is a voluntary consumer-protection program that verifies superior, certified renewable energy options offered by utilities and marketers in the retail market.Sets minimum consumer and environmental protection standards that bolster consumer confidence and market credibility and ensure the healthy growth of voluntary green power markets nationally. Certifies products in three types of markets: competitive retail electricity providers, monopoly utility green pricing, and renewable energy certificate markets

Cleaner and Greener CertificationThe Cleaner and Greener Program helps companies and organizations quantify their emissions footprint, calculate emission reductions from energy efficiency and other emission reduction projects, offset emissions, and certify the level of emission reductions and offsets.

Cleaner and Greener Certification is a program of Leonardo Academy, a charitable foundation dedicated to putting the competitive markets to work on reducing environmental emissions.This is important because about 65%-85% of all energy use in the US comes from product production, delivery, & use (Green Energy, Leonardo Academy 1998).

Climate Neutral –Climate CoolThe Climate Neutral Network is an alliance of companies and organizations committed to developing products, services, and enterprises that have a net-zero impact on global warming.

Climate Cool™ products or services are determined to completely offset the greenhousegases generated across each stage of their life-cycle including the sourcing of its materials, its manufacturing or production, its distribution, use, and ultimate end-of-life disposition.

NOTE: Climate Neutral Network is currently transferring to another non-profit and is not accepting any product certifications

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Leigh Stringer, LEED AP, aka "Greenette," has spent her career focused on green design and workplace behavior. She works for HOK, a global architectural firm in Washington, D.C. and has been interviewed for her work by CNN, USA Today and ABC’s Good Morning America.